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We are savoring the down time and making time for the most important things. I hope you’ve had a blessed Christmas celebration, and are preparing your heart and mind for 2012. It’ll be a bit quiet around here this week, but I’ll be back for the New Year!
Hello everyone my name is Rebekah and I blog over at A Bit of Sunshine. It is such an honor to be here today sharing with you about Advent and what it means in our home. My husband and I both LOVE Christmas. We put up our tree the day after Thanksgiving every year after a big brunch around the dining table. Chris will read from scripture and we talk about the birth of baby Jesus. Then we begin the wonderful job of decorating the house for the season. I love to pull out our Christmas Spode and vintage Putz village. The Santa head mugs and pitchers come out and, of course, the nativity is unwrapped and placed so it can be admired by all. We put on Christmas music, make hot cocoa and will most likely end the day with a family Christmas movie cuddled up on the […]
I have a confession: I really dislike making Christmas cookies and treats. A roast or a stout stew, yes, but a couple dozen cookies can easily slay me. I marvel at the amount of cutely and carefully packaged homemade cookies, bon bons, brittles, and mini-loaves of breads that arrive at my house this time of year. It’s always a glorious outpouring of love in little tins, boxes, and baggies. If it were possible for me to put a bow on some seared ahi tuna, I may be in business, but cookies and treats….I just can’t seem to pull them off. Despite all this, I am enamored with the “idea” of holiday baking and sweets. A friend of mine made this comment the other day on her Facebook status: “Sometimes [reading blogs] makes me feel like every other mother is frolicking through the kitchen with laughing babies following behind and they […]
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Every family develops their own special traditions and memories. No two families are alike, but there’s always something in another’s family that can inspire your own. I hope you are enjoying the Advent In The Heart and Home series. I’ve been so blessed already! Today is no different. My guest today is Anna from The Sweet Nest. Be encouraged…her simplicity is truly…sweet! Merry Christmas, friends! It was with great joy that I accepted Ruth’s request to share with you, some of our favorite advent-season traditions. Over time and through much trial and error, I have realized that any traditions we have grown to love have been ultimately rooted to two things: Expectations and Simplicity. Expectations can be a killer. It can drain joy and smiles and leave behind a colander full of disappointment. It has been my experience that deciding ahead of time what will become a treasured moment … doesn’t […]
My guest today is Joy Forney, author of Grace Full Mama. I have been so blessed by Joy’s love for the Lord, and her deliberate purpose to glorify him through her blog and through her family’s witness abroad… Joy is the wife to a missionary pilot and they, along with their five kids, live in Indonesia. She is an undeserving recipient of amazing grace, and grateful daughter of God. Joy’s heart is to encourage women to revel in their job as mommy and wife, and to see it as good and needed work. She shares her heart and life of being a mom with readers at her site, Grace Full Mama. In our home, advent is a simple, special event that we look forward to all year long. Each night during advent we light a candle, enjoy the light from the Christmas tree, and open a new door along with previously opened […]
Welcome to Advent In The Heart and Home Series. I’m so pleased to swap guest posts with my co-host Annalea Hart today. You will find that the Hart family indeed has heart… Hello! I’m Annalea and I’d like to welcome you to Advent with the Hart family. I am so excited to share here on GraceLacedtoday. Ruth and I believe this series could be inspiring and encouraging as you continue or begin traditions and celebrations of your own.Our family has been slowly grasping more and more over the years about how we can prepare our hearts and home with more intention during Advent. The purpose has not been to rush into traditions that won’t have follow-through or decorations thrown together on a deadline. This is a season of preparing and waiting.Our newest addition to Advent is the candle wreath pictured above. It is a beautifully crafted piece, that allows us to […]
It’s the first day of December, the beginning of the Advent season. Did you know that the word “Advent” comes from the Latin word adventus, which means “coming.” (We love us some Latin around here! ) Despite what it may feel like at the mall, Advent is the commemoration of the coming of Christ–the Messiah, and the anticipation of the Second Coming of our Lord! It’s what all the hustle and bustle is ultimately all about–it’s what we are preparing for…in our hearts and in our homes. Have you ever wanted to sneak a peek into someone else’s home for Christmas–their traditions, their decorations, their strategies for focusing the hearts of their children on the true meaning of Christmas? Starting next Tuesday, I’m teaming up with the lovely Annalea Hart to do just that! We are bringing to you inspiring and wonderful guest posters throughout December that will welcome […]
While leaves continue to fall, drifting into a blanket of slumber that lies heavy upon the quieted garden outside, a lush little world of growth is transforming my dining table. Three weeks ago, my newly planted amaryllis bulb looked like this: Two weeks ago, the paperwhites looked like this: Today, they are all taking off! Aren’t they so fresh and lovely? Are any of you growing bulbs indoor this Christmas? *****Don’t forget to enter the fabulous Kelly Moore Bag Gift Card Giveaway from yesterday’s post! You have until Friday night, the 2nd!*****
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